The Polish town Świnoujście can be reached as I know by car only via a ferry from Wollin Island. As I know, Świnoujście can be reached from Germany only by foot, bike or public bus transport.

I suppose it's gonna change soon (situation described above is a little bit unnormal,especially for tourists coming to Świnoujście BY CAR.

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Is it planned to build a bridge or an underwater tunnel to improve the connection from Świnoujście to the rest of Poland?

As K3 said (or rather wrote ),a young controversial politician (minister in the previous government) promissed that tunnel to Świnoujście (maybe he hopes that impressed people make him a mayor of this town...? ).

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As I know, it is also planned to rebuild the old railway line, which interconnected before 1945 Świnoujście with the German railway grid ( I know the famous bridge ruin at Karnin on Usedom). What is the actual matter about this project?

Not exactly;there are many buildings,which appeared there after the II World War;due to this fact it is impossible to rebuild this line in it's previous form.But (in fact) Garz and Swinoujście will be connected by rail again

There was a collapse of the main crane in Gdynia's shipyard in december 1999. It was destroyed by strong hurricane ( wind speed: 180 km/h). Fortunately it happened by night, so nobody gets hurt. I cant find any details about that crane, but I know that it's lifting capacity was 900 tons.

Here is a photo of the new crane, which is quite similar to collapsed one:

Its dimensions are: 106 meters tall, 153 meters wide, 3650 tons of weight and 1000 tons of lifting capacity. As far as I know the new one is just a ittle bit bigger than old one, so you can imagine size of that destroyed construction.

That was really crass!
A crane, which can lift 900 tons can be considered as a strong structure. How did the storm destroy it? Was it knocked over? Was it destroyed by too strong wind-induced oscillations? Was it pushed by the storm just over the ends of the rails on which it runs into the sea?

That was really crass!
A crane, which can lift 900 tons can be considered as a strong structure. How did the storm destroy it? Was it knocked over? Was it destroyed by too strong wind-induced oscillations? Was it pushed by the storm just over the ends of the rails on which it runs into the sea?

It was pushed by the wind to the sea, the safety brakes didn't work and it run into the shipyard basin. It was very strange to get up next morning, look out through my window and.. wait.. where the f**k is the crane?!

The Polish town Świnoujście can be reached as I know by car only via a ferry from Wollin Island.

At the moment it is the only route to Świnoujście from Wolin Island (and therefore the rest of Poland). But there are two separate ferry lines.

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As I know, Świnoujście can be reached from Germany only by foot, bike or public bus transport.

As of Poland joining Schengen the border is fully open - also for cars. There are two roads connecting Świnoujście to Germany. One from Heringdorf and Albeck, and the other from Garz.

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Is it planned to build a bridge or an underwater tunnel to improve the connection from Świnoujście to the rest of Poland?

Yes. Right now it is being studied whether there should be a tunnel or a bridge, with different conceptions and locations. But the tunnel is more probable. After that designing process will begin and hopefully the construction itself.

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As I know, it is also planned to rebuild the old railway line, which interconnected before 1945 Świnoujście with the German railway grid ( I know the famous bridge ruin at Karnin on Usedom). What is the actual matter about this project?

They want to rebuil that. Line between Ahlbeck and Świnoujście is almost finnished and will be open this year.

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

Hm, obviously collapsed as a result of the explosion the lowest three floors and the remaining upper 8 floors fall on the debris, but did not collapse. If I am correct, this was a really unexpected result of the gas explosion: one would more expect that either all floors remained intact, that the upmost floor(s) would collapse, that a part of the building would totally collapse or even the whole building would collapse.